Kids
Nino Baseball Lion's Club baseball park in Granada, Nicaragua
Baseball is played much the same everywhere it is played. The rules are the same. The setup of the bases and equipment is much the same. The length of the game can extend in close games, be called off because of weather, or the daylight left in the empty...
Baseball at the Lion’s Park Saturday morning in Granada
When growing up, baseball was the national sport of the United States. We had the New York Yankees, a multi World Series winning team with a barn full of horses like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Coach Casey Stengel and many others....
Parade Practice Following the drumbeat
My Mombacho apartment is a few blocks from a neighborhood school attended by kids in uniform, carrying backpacks. They learn reading and math in the morning. In the afternoon, they assemble in the street in front of their school and little drummer boys...
Christmas Baby Coming out of the New Cathedral
On the 24th of December there is a massive Christmas parade through downtown Cuenca. On the 25th of December, the day officially celebrated as Christ's birthday, there is a much smaller and simpler celebration at the New Cathedral across from the Parque...
Adams family so closed up I can't get in
Walking, you see odd stuff. This Museo and Cafe is on a walkway, just down from one of the tortuous staircases that lead you from Cuenca's Historical District to the Tomebomba river. The first time I tried to visit this curiosity, its front door was...
Kids in the Spotlight Dancing in the xmas parade
It warms adult's hearts to see children doing dances they did themselves when they were little. There is always concern by one generation that the following generation is going to hell,but traditions do get passed down and kept alive. These children are...
Boys crossing the Rio Tomebamba boys will be boys
This morning there is a Christmas concert in progress across the Rio Tomebamba, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Two young boys have decided they aren't going to walk up or down the river to either of the bridges to cross so they roll up pant legs, leave tennis shoes...
Performance Art Unintended Consequences
By the New Cathedral, on a cloudy afternoon, these performers stand motionless. Then, they move and beckon to a little girl to pose for a photo with them with her mom. After the photo, they blow them a parting kiss and return to their rigid pose. They...
Ronald McDonald For President 2016
Ronald doesn't mind getting photographed. Just five minutes ago, two kids sat next to the icon eating fries and sipping Coca Cola. How is it that a clown can become the most famous person in the world? Ronald's only resume is red hair, crazy colored...
New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night
Ecuador has a new changing young generation. A still small number of its children have adopted the music, talk, style of other big city children around the world. There is graffiti in Cuenca. You see some tattoos, some ear piercings and dyed hair, torn...
Little Girl Feeding Monkeys cute as a bug
We don't see any other monkeys on this trip. More might be here, but this is the only one who is tame enough and smart enough to meet the boat, take food from us tourists, and entertain for his bread and butter. He is a spider monkey and almost as cute...
Tarzan Kids at play
In San Pedro Town this afternoon, after school, a couple of boys come up with their own game. Tarzan's jungle can be any place on the planet as long as there is a little boy who puts two and two together. One of the boys grabs one end of a dangling palm...
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